DECEMBER
Feasts marked in red have been eliminated from the calendar of the Pog Church.
Items in Orange have been moved or changed.
       1. ferial day
        2. St. Bibiana, virgin and martyr, simple
        3. St. Francis Xavier, confessor, greater double  also 
called double major 
        4. St. Peter Chysologus, bishop, confessor and doctor of
the Church, double, commemoration of St. Barbara, virgin and
martyr
        5. Commemoration of St. Sabbas, abbot
        6. Commemoration of St. Nicholas, bishop and confessor, Double
        7. St. Ambrose, bishop, confessor and doctor of the
Church, Double, commemoration of the Vigil of the Immaculate
Conception  fast and partial abstinence 
     +  8. IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY double of the first class  holyday of obligation   Note if this falls on Sunday, it is transfered to Monday, but the obligation to attend Mass is not transfered.
        9. ferial day
       10. Commemoration of St. Melchiades, pope and martyr
       11. St. Damasus I, pope and confessor, simple
       12. Our Lady of Guadalupe, double of the second class
first class in the Americas 
       13. St. Lucy, Virgin and Martyr, Double
       14. ferial day
       15. ferial day
       16. St. Eusebius, bishop and martyr, simple
       17. ferial day
       18. ferial day
       19. ferial day
       20. ferial day
       21. ST. THOMAS, APOSTLE, DOUBLE OF THE SECOND CLASS (transfered to July 3)
       22. ferial day (Note that the Universal Calendar has no feast today, but in the United States we observe:  In America, ST.   FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI, DOUBLE OF THE SECOND CLASS 
       23. ferial day
       24. Vigil of Christmas  fast and partial abstinence 
     + 25. NATIVITY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, DOUBLE OF THE FIRST CLASS WITH AN OCTAVE
       26. ST. STEPHEN, PROTOMARTYR, DOUBLE OF THE SECOND CLASS
       27. ST. JOHN, APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST, DOUBLE OF THE SECOND CLASS
       28. HOLY INNOCENTS, MARTYR, DOUBLE OF THE SECOND CLASS
       29. St. Thomas of Canterbury, bishop and martyr, Double
       30. Day within Octave of Christmas
       31. St. Sylvester I, pope and confessor, Double  fast and 
partial abstinence 
           All Catholics should make a Holy Hour beginning at
11:30pm this evening to start the new year right!
      Note well that if Lord's day falls on December 25, 26, 27
or 28, the  Lord's day after Christmas  is celebrated on December 30, otherwise it is celebrated when it falls with a commeoration of the feast day, (if any)